I like the ⌘ glyph but outside the United States, keyboards don’t have the “command” name on the key. I find it hard to describe to my parents when doing support over the phone.
It was much easier when this key also featured the outline of the Apple logo , I could describe it as the key with the Apple on it next to the space bar.
I envy my Northern European neighbors that actually have name for the ⌘ symbol, or in Northern America where you can simply say the “command” key because that’s written on it.
The “” (F8FF) unicode code point is in the “private use” section of Unicode, and therefore could depict anything, depending on the font. The closest thing to a standard is the Under-ConScript Unicode Registry¹, which reserves F8D0−F8FF to Klingon, where the F8FF character is the KLINGON MUMMIFICATION GLYPH:
I learned it as the "Open Apple" key, and I used that for many years, until people stopped having any idea what I was talking about. And it's way too many syllables. I had to retrain myself to call it "command".
On my laptop, with a Danish keyboard, it says "command" right below the ⌘ sign. Weirdly enough the larger USB keyboard it just says "cmd" on the left of the key and have ⌘ right aligned.
From memory, more recent non-US keyboards do have "command" as well as the symbol, and recent US keyboards have added the symbol, so we have eventually reached consistency.
I like the ⌘ glyph but outside the United States, keyboards don’t have the “command” name on the key. I find it hard to describe to my parents when doing support over the phone.
It was much easier when this key also featured the outline of the Apple logo , I could describe it as the key with the Apple on it next to the space bar.
I envy my Northern European neighbors that actually have name for the ⌘ symbol, or in Northern America where you can simply say the “command” key because that’s written on it.